Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-02-03


| could do, of the people Of our own
State; inasmuch az the State of Delaware
has the key to the best fish stream along
this whole Atlantic coast. She has the
three most valuable fish indigenous to
these waters rock fish, chad and sturgeon,
which, let me say, have become almost
exterminated from the Atlantic coast
waters. They have been completely
tished out of the streams near Delaware
TO the extent that II doesn't pay to fish
for them" Aud thus, Mr.. Norny went
on in deliberate and we'll
modulated tone, holding, it Ia no
exaggerntion to say, the House spell
bound for nearly an hour. he told,
among other things, how he had watched
national legislation and prompted "our
own able representative TO prevent Mr.. |
Everhardt's bill taking course inimical
to our fishing interests. He spoke of the
labor and time employed, and the him
drsNnes met in getting legislation needful |
60 thefe interests through the last General |
Assembly; of the proof given imme- |
diately afterwards that the intent of that |
could be enforced without the trouble or |
bloodsbed that had, in the interests of |
jersey poachers, been predicted; of the |
urgent necessity OF restricting the right |
| to fish in Delaware waters to bona tide |
citizens and TO those who come
here with the honest intention of
becoming such, and Of many other
related matters of local interest. He
cited authorities on what constitute a
boda fine .citizen in legal confederation.
| II was high compliment to his speech
| that the bill, as amended on his motion,
at once went through the House by unan-
imous vote. The amended bill specifies
"a bona tide citizen in this State SO far
as the same appears in the fish laws Of
this State, shall be construed TO mean that
such citizen shall have had his home or
domicile in this State for one year next
preceding his application to fish in the
waters of this State or TO be assessed"
DOVER, Jan. Sl.--Members of Will
mington's City Council came down to-day
with the bills agreed on recently for pre-
sentation to the Legislature For extend
ing the terms of clerk and bailiff of Ooun-
Gil aud other officers to three years,
(Which strikes mo as a good measure to
kill) for increasing the annual appropri-
atoms to fire companies, and the Urban
Turnpike bill Titles TO fit the first and
second of these bills were given notice of
by Representative Ware this afternoon.
Representative Medill has u bill on the
stocks for the taxation of investments II
will be based generally on the act of 1871
Opp. So Sc Revised Code), which was re-
pealed after short trial, when the 10 per
cent State tax was taken off, but will
contain alarming mengces TO the creditor
who attempts to saddle his tax on his
| debtor. Mr.. Medill proposes TO require
, assessors to interrogate taxables regarding
! oil investments they may hold-m0rt-
. cages domestic and foreign, stocks, 10,
I not expressly exempted Gas are United
States and State bonds and some
9 bank stocks) and to impose thereon
r the same rate of tax as is levied
! by the county on real estate. This bill
will make some noise before 1t gets
= a through either house.
Representative Justis is among the
i visitors here. He does not profess to be
cunning for anything in particular, but
Q ne is emphatically of the opinion, as is
q also Representative Mccoy, that the law
9 should be SO amended as to allow an
: appeal from prosecutions under the
q cruelty to animals law. There is q story
/ told here--this does not compromise MIR.
S Justis in the least-of o farmer being
. called on under the operation of this law
q to pay $50 for shooting worthless dog
that he caught in the act of devouring
/ one of his turkeys, and, in the absence Of
/ this right of appeal, there was no escape
n whatever.
The alleged ineligibility of Senator
y Dorman of Sussex, Chased upon his being
Q postmaster), which has been quietly
: spoken of for week or so past has been
u brought to day to the official notice Of
n the committee on elections. Mr.. Dor
n man was here this morning, but went
d down home this afternoon with the re.
i ported intention of consulting his coun.
y sci, and, if disqualified, of purging him
/ self if possible of such disqualification.
. As the Senate is the sole and absolute
q Judge of the qualifications of its mem
ii bers, and the resignation of his post
Ne mastership, which he rendered to-day
II may be all that is required, it is MOI
y thought there will be any serious trouble
or over the matter at this late day.
DOVER. Feb. There is nothing new
in the M0ratng Meas sensation abou
s. Senator McWhorteI alleged ineligibility
If. aud it does not promise to amount Il
a. anything. McWhorter himself ha
lie freely and puu.iGly declared her
o. petore to-day that If the matter
lg broaohvd he is, and has Deen since III
Isl session opened and for six weeks previou
I'D prepared to put up the requisite collater,
re at moments notice and on the spo
al And if this is required pof him no wi
tie call upon some of his fellow-members
or prove their title as clearly.
in The constitutional qualification of
&c state senator is the possession of q
AZ acres of real estate or of real and pc
lat sonal property to the value of e ,0C
he colonial currency.
~ DoyER, Feb. 1.-To-dny has been rath,
u. quiet legislatively, although fair amour
Il, OF business was transacted in the Hout
and the capital has been unusually full
. people, drawn hither chiefly by the opci
i ing OF the levy court.
:, There has been considerable talk abOl
IL Senator Dorman and his disqualifyit
J, post UfliJe, but nobody ventures TO pr
i. diet the outcome. General regret is g
~ pressed that man so well liked shou
~, have endangered his seat in the Gener
~ Assembly by such an oversight, for, col
"a sidering that the annual revenue fro
IA Drawbridge post Office is estimated at So
- 10 it c. uld have been nothing more than 3
~ oversight in MIR. Dorman to hold on to
NJ after his election TO the Senate. lie keel
sas Il general supply store in that Sussl
lie village and runs the post office and +,
that matter, the draw bridge fro
l.r which the place takes its nam
III, chiefly as matter of accommod
in ton, for, like most men
nd ponderous avoirdupois, Mr.. Dorman
or just as accommodating and good nature
red as the law allows possibly little mo
IA SO in this particular case. He has n
- returned from home, and the commit
ali on elections has done nothing but quiet
81 talk over the situation. Possibly int
the rogatories may be propounded to II
,os. State Judiciary as was done in the case
William Il. Watson last session, who b,
become disqualified by losing his citize
ship, disability time alone could !
ing move. On the other hand it m
yer be that, upon the acceptance
". ne the post-oihce department of N
ul. Dorman's resignation, the Sena
I'm may regard him eligible to resume
lro, seat. 1t is interesting, in this connectio
ah', to note how far Chancellor Saulsbu
nao went, in his Watson opinion, as to I
Gus power of one Of the Houses in this
ou, sptct. Said he: 1.-The jurisdiction a
ana authority to decide these questions is,
up the constitution of the State, vested
lese the House of Representatives exclusive
~. " and no court, and no Judge, has jurisd
tter ton to review or reverse the decisi
ior which the House of Representatives m
va, make in respect TO these questions Yo
9'a right, gentlemen, to decide them is
ueu elusive and absolute, and your deciBi
in respect to them will be final and ir
~ yArsibla whatever TINT decision INV h,